By The Associated Press A passenger arrested in Honduras for damaging the cockpit of an American Airlines jet during boarding has been released by authorities. The flight scheduled to depart for Miami on Tuesday afternoon was delayed for hours until a replacement plane could be arranged. The flight arrived in Florida early Wednesday, about eight
Continue Reading By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The third-largest group in the European Parliament has called for the establishment of a committee to investigate abuses by European Union governments with powerful spyware produced by Israel’s NSO Group. Renew Europe, a liberal political grouping, said Wednesday that the use of the software to break
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By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — European Parliament lawmakers have called for a committee to investigate rights abuses by European Union governments using powerful spyware produced by Israel’s NSO Group. Renew Europe, a liberal political group, said Wednesday that the use of the software to break into the phones of government critics
Continue Reading JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel says it has broken up an Iranian spy ring that recruited Israeli women via social media. The women agreed to photograph sensitive sites, gather intelligence and in at least two cases, to encourage their sons to join Israeli military intelligence. Israel views Iran as its greatest threat, and the two nations
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By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Getting your dish soap out of the bottle might not be on your top 10 list of daily annoyances. But Procter & Gamble is making it easier anyway. Dawn, the top-selling dish soap brand, has unveiled a redesigned bottle with “patented no-flip cap technology.” That means the bottle stands, upside-down,
Continue Reading By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — The Berlin International Film Festival is going to take place next month in person despite rising virus numbers in Germany, especially in the capital. The festival management said Wednesday that strict pandemic measures would be applied to the 72nd edition of one of the world’s most famous
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By Sam Fossum, CNN The White House unveiled several new initiatives across the government on Wednesday to bolster offshore wind production, streamline a review of public lands for clean energy and implement power grid improvements as part of the recently passed bipartisan infrastructure law. The Department of the Interior announced that the Bureau of Ocean
Continue Reading By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Will Smith, Lady Gaga and Ben Affleck landed individual nominations for the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday, while the casts of “Belfast” and “CODA” were among those nominated for the guild’s top award, best ensemble. The nominees were announced Wednesday by actors Vanessa
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FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — Authorities are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of a man sought in the Friday night shooting of a Farmington police officer. The U.S. Marshals Service is offering the reward for information regarding Elias Buck. The 22-year-old is charged with aggravated battery upon on a police officer
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By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Lennie James is calling for more debate when it comes to casting in film and TV, as Hollywood looks to employ more actors with lived experience in certain roles. The British actor and screenwriter, who is best known for playing devoted father Morgan Jones in the hit AMC zombie series “The
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TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russia has dominated the first day of the European figure skating championships after taking the top three positions in the men’s and pairs short programs. World champions Anastasia Mishina and Aleksandr Galliamov led the way for Russia in the pairs with a clean skate scoring 82.36 points. Andrei Mozalev led the
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By Rob Picheta, CNN Prince Andrew is facing the prospect of a trial in a very public civil lawsuit for sexual abuse later this year, after losing his attempt to have Virginia Giuffre’s case against him thrown out. It is an unprecedented situation for a senior British royal — the third child (and reportedly the
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — At first, it didn’t even register as a threat. Then it seemed like a temporary annoyance. Now, inflation is flashing red for the Federal Reserve’s policymakers — and delivering sticker shock to Americans at the used car lot, the supermarket, the gas station, the rental office.
Continue Reading By PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — At first, it didn’t even register as a threat. Then it seemed like a temporary annoyance. Now, inflation is flashing red for the Federal Reserve’s policymakers — and delivering sticker shock to Americans at the used car lot, the supermarket, the gas station, the rental office.
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN The nominations for the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced on Wednesday. The ceremony will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS from The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California on at 8 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. PST on February 27. TNT and TBS are owned by CNN’s
Continue Reading By LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has given the green light to a lawsuit by an American woman who says Prince Andrew sexually abused her when she was 17. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote in an opinion Wednesday that Andrew’s lawyers failed to successfully challenge
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Cancer mortality rates have been dropping for nearly two decades, aided by “major progress” in the early detection and treatment options for lung cancer, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual report on cancer statistics, published Wednesday. The overall cancer death rate dropped by about a third (32%) from its peak
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Un juez federal en Nueva York rechazó una moción para desestimar una demanda civil contra el príncipe Andrés presentada por Virginia Giuffre, una mujer que alega que fue víctima de tráfico sexual con el príncipe cuando era menor de edad. En su fallo, el juez Lewis Kaplan escribió: “La queja
Continue Reading NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities investigating the disappearance of a woman who was reported missing found a headless human torso in freezer that was inside an old bus parked beside a home in New Orleans. Residents say police were in the neighborhood Sunday asking if the smelled anything. Officers returned Tuesday with a search warrant
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas, CNN Jamie Lynn Spears is opening up about what led to her strained relationship with her pop star older sister Britney Spears. There’s been a misconception, the younger Spears said, about her role in Britney Spears’ 13-year court-ordered conservatorship, which ended last year after a judge removed the pair’s father, Jamie Spears,
Continue Reading By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press Democrats are speaking out against school closures even as the omicron variant of COVID-19 puts additional pressures on public schools. That stance risks drawing the anger of some teachers unions and their support for Democratic candidates. Around the country, scattered teachers unions have called for closures, and
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration announced Wednesday the purchase of additional courses of a Covid-19 treatment manufactured by drugmaker AstraZeneca. The White House is “in the process of ordering another half-million courses of AstraZeneca’s preventive therapy for immunocompromised individuals,” Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients said at Wednesday’s Covid-19 briefing. “The federal government was
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson and Lauren del Valle, CNN A federal judge in New York on Wednesday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Prince Andrew filed by Virginia Giuffre, a woman who alleges she was sexually trafficked to the royal when she was underage. “Ms. Giuffre’s complaint is neither ‘unintelligible’ nor ‘vague’ nor ‘ambiguous,’”
Continue Reading A federal judge in New York denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Prince Andrew filed by Virginia Giuffre, a woman who alleges she was sexually trafficked to the royal when she was underage. CNN’s Max Foster reports.
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Good Morning! It was another very cold morning but temperatures will rebound to the 60s this afternoon. It will be dry through Friday. A cold front will move into the area late Friday into Saturday dropping temperatures back to normal and bringing a slight chance for showers. Temperatures warm back to the upper 50s on
Continue Reading SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Protesters opposing COVID-19 restrictions in Bulgaria have clashed with police as they were trying to storm the Parliament in Sofia. Heavy police presence prevented protesters from entering the building and some were detained. Several people, including police officers were injured during the clashes. Eventually, the protesters were pushed back, and police
Continue Reading CNN By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden painted a dire picture for the nation’s future elections during a major speech on voting rights while in Atlanta on Tuesday, expressing his frustration at Republicans who blocked voting rights legislation and calling on the US Senate to change its filibuster rules to accommodate the bills’ passage.
Continue Reading By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Prayers and the compelling need to bury the dead have filled a Bronx mosque, as a bereaved community began saying goodbye to those lost in New York City’s most devastating fire in decades. In all, 17 people died, including eight children. Community
Continue Reading urielblanco (CNN Business) — Si quieres hacer tu pedido habitual en un KFC de Australia o en un McDonald’s de Japón estos días, puede que te lleves una decepción. Las dos cadenas de comida rápida experimentan escasez de pollo fresco y de papas fritas, respectivamente, lo que les obliga a reducir algunos de los productos
Continue Reading British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced tough questions from lawmakers in Parliament as outrage mounts over a “bring your own booze” event held at Downing Street during the height of the UK’s first Covid-19 lockdown. CNN’s Salma Abdelaziz reports.
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